Comment about DE discussion summary
Paul W. Frields
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Mon Feb 10 20:51:02 UTC 2014
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 04:31:22PM -0800, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
> Reading the summary, I would like to comments about the DE discussion.
> Barring the long emotional argument about favourite DE to recommend,
> I think the reminder is Fedora is all about
> displaying new technology with GNOME as the default for distribution
> while alternative will still be available. KDE still has its place
> on section like ARM architectures where there is no standard in GPU.
> Overall, it means there is two majors DE to focus.
>
> What needs to work on is the solid foundation of the workstation
> part by taking advantage of the immense work done by systemd and the
> adoption of recommendation done by freedesktop.org. Documentation
> will need to play crucial roles for developing applications (one of
> complains towards GTK3 compared to Qt).
>
> I wait for the decision of Workstation Group. No matter the result,
> let's keep improving the entire infrastructure within Fedora.
Luya, what a great point you've made here. There are undoubtedly ways
to contribute and improve the upstream in addition to helping deal
with Fedora and upstream bugs. The fd.o efforts have yielded a lot of
good results, and I for one hope the Fedora community continues to
collaborate there!
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